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<span class=large>MALACHI</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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The priests are reproved for not keeping their covenants and teaching the people—The Jews are condemned for dealing treacherously one with another, and with the wife of the covenant.
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And</span> now, O ye priests, this commandment <i>is</i> for you.
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If ye will not <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 15.">hear</a>, and if ye will not lay <i>it</i> to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, I will even send a <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Curse.">curse</a> upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay <i>it</i> to heart.
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Behold, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR rebuke.">corrupt</a> your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, <i>even</i> the dung of your solemn feasts; and <i>one</i> shall take you away with it.
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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Oath and Covenant.">covenant</a> might be with Levi, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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My <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 25: 12 (11-13); Isa. 54: 10.">covenant</a> was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him <i>for</i> the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
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The law of <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Honesty.">truth</a> was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 66: 1.">turn</a> many away from <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/2/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Hel. 5: 19 (17-19).">iniquity</a>.
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For the priest’s lips should keep <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 90: 15 (14-15); D&C 107: 99 (99-100); D&C 131: 6.">knowledge</a>, and they should seek the <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 26.">law</a> at his mouth: for he <i>is</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/2/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Teachers.">messenger</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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But ye are <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 22: 26.">departed</a> out of the way; ye have caused many to <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 27: 8 (8-9).">stumble</a> at the law; ye have <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/2/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Sam. 2: 17.">corrupted</a> the <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/2/8d" mark="d" type="A" title="Neh. 13: 29.">covenant</a> of Levi, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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Therefore have I also made you <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 2: 30.">contemptible</a> and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
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Have we not all one <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="Eph. 4: 6; TG God the Father - Elohim/Eloheim.">father</a>?  hath not one God <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/10b" mark="b" type="C" title="Job 31: 15; Acts 17: 26; D&C 76: 24 (22-24); TG Man, Physical Creation of.">created</a> us?  why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/2/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Profanity.">profaning</a> the covenant of our fathers?
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&#182; Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> which he loved, and hath <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Interfaith.">married</a> the daughter of a <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Unbelief, Unbelievers.">strange</a> god.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Excommunication.">cut</a> off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth <i>it</i> with good will at your hand.
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&#182; Yet ye say, Wherefore?  Because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath been witness between thee and the <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 54: 6; TG Marriage.">wife</a> of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet <i>is</i> she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
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And did not he make <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Unity.">one</a>?  Yet had he the residue of the spirit.  And wherefore one?  That he might seek a <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Godliness.">godly</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/2/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jacob 2: 30.">seed</a>.  Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/2/15d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Husbands.">wife</a> of his youth.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">putting</a> away: for <i>one</i> covereth violence with his garment, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
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&#182; Ye have wearied the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> with your words.  Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied <i>him?</i>  When ye say, Every one that doeth <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 16 (7-8, 16).">evil</a> <i>is</i> good in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and he delighteth in them; or, Where <i>is</i> the God of <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/2/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mal. 3: 14 (14-15); 2 Ne. 28: 22 (16-22).">judgment</a>?
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